Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 101:

  ''Chief, the boys are getting more expensive to handle. They continue to demand for increased pay and you know what you give for expenses. Please try and look into a possible increase in the overhead allocation.

  This smuggling racket is becoming too hot to handle you know, the risk involved'.The setting of the play is

  Options:
  A) Gbossa
  B) Benue
  C) Nassarawa
  D) Jabu
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 102:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  'The eye that looks down will surely see the nose

  The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose

  The lines above from 'Hurrah for Thunder' bear two major connotations.

  These are

  Options:
  A) watchfulness and awareness
  B) sensitiveness and arrogance
  C) patience and caution
  D) caution and justice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 103:

  Pick out the odd item

  Options:
  A) a Raisin in the Sun
  B) Twelfth Night
  C) Ozidi
  D) The Concubine
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 104:

  'I shall sleep under the roof of other heads of hair in shelter from storms'.

  In Leopold Senghor's poem 'Long long you have held between your hands', the word 'storms' in the above line refers to

  Options:
  A) sea storms
  B) rain storms
  C) storming raids by the racist police
  D) storms of passion.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 105: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 106:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  ''O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!

  Tony E. Afejuku:An Orchard of Wishes

  The literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) refrain
  C) consonance
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 107:

  The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) euphemism
  C) pun
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 108:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Browning's 'My Last Duchess'is

  Options:
  A) an epic
  B) a sonnet
  C) an elegy
  D) a lyric
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 109:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the cold hands of death...

  His mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?

  Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'

  These two stanzas capture the

  Options:
  A) fear of death
  B) ugliness of death
  C) mystery of death
  D) knowledge of death
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 110:

  This question is based on Camara Laye's The African Child.

  The novel is a mixture of

  Options:
  A) fiction and fantasy
  B) the objective and the absurd
  C) pessimism and optimism
  D) the real and the supermatural
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  The correct answer is D .